St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-17
Mrs. Bertha Feilzer Has a
Strange Reason for TAX
ing Her Life.
DR.. Emery Takes a Wife and
Mrs. Hayden Gets a
Divorce.
Another Fiend Loose in the
City---A. B. Chamber
lain Deposed.
THE CHAMBER PROTESTS.

The Charges of Discrimination
Against Minneapolis in Favor of
Duluth Made Against the Mani
tOba.
The Minneapolis chamber of COM
merce yesterday preferred charges of
unjust discrimination against the Mani
toba Railroad company. The document,
signed by Vice President James Mar
shall and Secretary c. c. Sturteyant,
was presented yesterday and ordered
sent to the interstate commerce COM
mission. 1t is addressed to Judge L. NJ.
Cooley, president, and reads as follows:
We desire to call your attention to the I'M
Just discrimination practiced by the ST. Paul,
Minneapolis u Manitoba Railway company
against the manufacturers and mercantile
interests of Minneapolis, in that they make
rate on wheat, for example from Graceville
TO Duluth, a distance of 2S2 miles at 10
cents per ewt., and to Minneapolis IA cents
per cwt., a distance of 173 miles; from
Wahpeton to Duluth a distance of 2S4 miles
of 10 cents per cwt., and the same rate to
Fargo 81 miles from Duluth, rate of Is
cents per cwt., and the same rate to Mime
apolis, Il distance of 232 miles; a rate
Of Is cents per ew from nI Eendal
the same rate to Minneapolis, 29l miles dis
tant; from Aberdeen, a distance of 3S4
miles from Duluth. and 500 miles from Min
neapolis, 20 cents per cwt. i'll both cases.
This company is also charging the same
rates on lumber from Duluth and Cloquet to
the points named as in effect from Mime
apoliS. with, perhaps, a contemplated reduc-
ton of or Pig cents at Graceyllle. Their
mercantile rates are the same from Duluth TO
Minneapolis, and this enables the Eastern
jobbers to reach all of the territory named on
less rate of freight than the jobbers of Min
neapolis are able 20 obtain, either via Lake
Slrra .inrn any oil hIS nrrrlfS
TO Il discrimination of from ) to 10 cents per
cwt. over and above the lowest rate the job
bers can obtain via Lake Superior routes.
The discrimination, so far as the milling in
terests are concerned, has been practiced for
a series of years. When the margin of profit
was very much larger than it is now, the
milling interests did not make much COM
plant, but now that the margin is reduced to
a minimum these determinations are seri-
ouSly affecting our interests and are depriving
us of any legitimate margin or profit that
would occur to the business were a reason
able differential vote established such as is
warranted by the distance. 1t should be
borne in mind that after we get this wheat to
Minneapolis we have to compete with mar
kets of the world, and that the rates of
freight in effect on our flour shipments from
here to Lake Superior and to Lake Michigan,
being on basis of cents per cwt. to Lake
Superior, and 7l2 per cwt. to Lake Michigan,
are as low as we can expect to get our pro-
ducts to market for SO that in any event it
costs us ) cents per hundred weight more
than it would buffalo miller who bought
his wheat at these points in Minnesota and
Dakota and shipped direct to Duluth. This
same discrimination is practiced by this road
to all their Dakota points north of Moorhead
and Fargo. 1t is well known by the st. Paul,
Minneapolis u Manitoba road that lumber
can be produced at the points named in Min
nesota at least liz per cent cheaper than it
can be at Minneapolis and the ditferential
should in no case be less than cents per
cwt., and the effect of this unjust discrimina-
ton TO the numbering interests of this city
compels the manufacturers here to accept
small or no margin of profit. or enable the
manufacturer at the points named in ORTIZ
ern Minnesota to obtain a margin of profits
which he is not legitimately entitled to.